Microsoft adds Sway integration into the Windows 10 Photos app

Users of the Windows 10 Photo app will now be able to create a narrative story with those images. Microsoft has announced it has updated the app by integrating features from its Sway multimedia presentation tool.

Microsoft said:

"Just click the "Tell your story with Sway" button in Microsoft Photos, and your album immediately becomes an interactive, web-based experience. Then use Sway to add section headers, text narration, captions, and other details to enhance the flow of your narrative and create your own story. And you can add in all kinds of other web-based interactive media, too, including tweets, Vines, maps, charts, and even Living Images (which capture additional pre-photo footage and breathe additional life into your narrative). Tell the tale of your recent vacation, make an instructional video or even create a blog style recipe of the delicious food you cooked last night. "

Photos users who have never used Sway will have an account created for them the first time they use this integrated feature.

I love sway. I've messed with folks by replying to their email with a link to a Sway I built almost as fast as I could have replied in the email client. (SWAY is wicked fast) They are STUNNED by it. This is an amazing feature!!!

I'm not seeing the integration yet. Updated all apps through the store and I have Sway also installed. Photos version 16.302.8200.0 and Sway 16.0.6741.4527. l also have 2 albums: Camera Roll and Saved Pictures. Also, not sure if it matters, but all my pix are actually on OneDrive from my phone - UPDATE - looks like the photos need to be local. I found the option after downloading an album from OneDrive

Well. In my use-case I'd want to create a Sway from my trip to the jungle for example. It'd be a hell of a lot easier being able to do the legwork directly from the camera (i.e. phone) rather than having to wait for my photos to sync up across phone and surface first.

I'm not saying it shouldn't be included on the PC side, just that I see more use for it on the phone.

Yeah, that's not really what I'm saying though. I'd like to have the option, specifically, to create a sway from an album on the phone. I could then quite easily go ahead and do fine-editing on the Surface.

But yeah, I have no doubt Sway itself will be released for Mobile also

...and forgot to make it self-sufficient (can't use offline) or social (can't share). It can't even get along with it's own family, since they haven't put it on Windows 10m, but it's been on Android and iOS for a pretty long while now.

Update the app first... Then create an album. Scroll down to the bottom of the album you just created and you should have three large buttons whereas the most rightmost button will create a Sway-album.